This was another peek into the frig dinner. I cooked up chicken thighs and tenders that needed to be cooked or else. I cooked them in olive oil, salt and lots of pepper. I made this new shape of pasta that looks like little pieces of lasagna noodles. I sautéed some cooked broccoli, ham, corn, peas and red peppers. I…
Banana Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes
I love to make buttermilk pancakes with fresh buttermilk but when I have tons of overripe bananas and blueberries this is what you get. I guess I am going through a buttermilk pancake phase now trying to perfect it and experiment with possible variations. These have a sprinkle of coconut sugar on top. Not a good idea. It turned to burnt…
Pizza with garlic, smoked mozzarella, provolone, charred corn, broccoli, shrimp, bacon, shallots
The name and the pictures pretty much say how I made this. Again, a window to the current contents of my refrigerator on a Trader Joes pizza dough crust. Some fresh italian parsley on top after it came out of the oven. It was a really interesting combination of flavors. Smoked mozzarella is a cool cheese that I have never…
Pastrami Grilled Cheese Sandwich on Rye
This Levy’s Real Jewish Rye is a really cool bread I found here in NYC. I am sure I will never find this in CA. It was perfect for this pastrami sandwich I made for Henry. I steamed the Trader Joes pastrami and melted the auricchio provolone inside with buttered bread. Not low calorie but super yummy for Roger or…
Barramundi, homemade croutons with salad
I have been eating lunch at Sweet Green and loving their salads and realized that a good salad it dependent on the freshness of the greens and freshness of the dressing so I got really good greens from the farmers market at Union Square and made my own simple vinagrette. The fish was from Trader Joes frozen. It turned out…
Pastrami Sauerkraut Arugula Egg Sandwich on Rye Bread
This is part of my pastrami phase! I bought this amazingly fresh arugula at the farmers market and some caraway sauerkraut and made a sandwich with my new favorite pastrami from Trader Joes and added a sunny side up fried egg and put some mayonnaise on Levy’s Jewish Rye bread from Fairway. This was so good one day I ate…
Texas Sheet Cake
I have many this many times but I found this variation on a website that has a name so close to mine I thought I would check it out. It is called this is how i cook.com. She has some pretty cool stuff. This was a recipe I found there. The only difference from mine is that she uses coffee…
Vegetable Pastrami Soup
I have been playing with pastrami lately! I am so happy they are making so many delicious meats uncured and without nitrites! All the flavor and none of the scary stuff. Trader Joes sells this and I keep buying it. I had a Rosemary Ham phase and now I am in the pastrami phase of experimentation. This soup turned out…
Mama Lachute’s Blackberry Dumplings
Once I read this recipe I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I have never heard of boiling dumplings in a blackberry syrup. I had a ton of blackberries that were too tart to eat alone. And I just had to see what this was all about! It was delicious! I couldn’t stop eating these and knew I shouldn’t,…